A Blinkered Case for Nationalism

The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free Rich Lowry Broadside Books, 2019, 288 pp., $26.99 If we are fortunate, one way or another, through impeachment or the ballot box, the Trump era will soon draw to an end. What will fill the enormous void left by the departure of the mega-miscreant Donald Trump? Unsurprisingly, a sick body politic is vulnerable to yet more disease.Lately, on the political right there has been an outbreak of nationalism, which typically presents in one of two conditions: benign and malign. A prime specimen of the latter is Yoram Hazony’s The Virtue of …read more